The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.